On a Shoestring to Coorg: an experience of southern India

✍ Scribed by Murphy, Dervla

• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dervla Murphy and her five-year-old daughter Rachel- with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans- meander slowly from Bombay to the southernmost tip of India. Interested in everything they see but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. They double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg, and settle down to live there for two months. Here, anchored by her daughter's delight in the company of her Indian neighbours, Murphy sketches an affectionate, fresh a.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgements; Map; Prologue; 1: Initiation in Bombay; 2: Hippies in Goa; 3: Tibetans in Mundgod; 4: Discovering Coorg; 5: Musings in Mysore; 6: Andanipura Farm; 7: The Huthri Festival; 8: A Glance at Kerala: Cochin's Kathakali Dance; 9: Pilgrims at Cape Comorin: Family Life in Tamil Nadu; 10: On the Coast of Coromandel; 11: Fever in Madurai: Wildlife in Periyar; 12: Ancestor Veneration in Devangeri; 13: Caste in Coorg; 14: Forest Funeral; 15: A Naming Ceremony and a Wedding; 16: Praying and Dancing; Epilogue; Select Bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgements
Map
Prologue
1: Initiation in Bombay
2: Hippies in Goa
3: Tibetans in Mundgod
4: Discovering Coorg
5: Musings in Mysore
6: Andanipura Farm
7: The Huthri Festival
8: A Glance at Kerala: Cochin's Kathakali Dance
9: Pilgrims at Cape Comorin: Family Life in Tamil Nadu
10: On the Coast of Coromandel
11: Fever in Madurai: Wildlife in Periyar
12: Ancestor Veneration in Devangeri
13: Caste in Coorg
14: Forest Funeral
15: A Naming Ceremony and a Wedding
16: Praying and Dancing
Epilogue
Select Bibliography.

✦ Subjects

Travel;TRAVEL--Asia--General;Electronic books;Murphy, Dervla, -- 1931- -- Travel -- India, South;India, South -- Description and travel;Kodagu (India) -- Description and travel;TRAVEL -- Asia -- General;Murphy, Dervla, -- 1931-;India -- Kodagu;South India